maybe the dingo ate your baby?

S03E10 The StrandedretroDec 19, 2000, 10:50 AM ET9 years later16 posts by 11 posters
Question

Fans identify the "dingo" joke from The Stranded episode and discuss its origin as a reference to the Meryl Streep film Out of Africa about an Australian baby abduction case.

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dianemiller4713

Does anyone remember which episode this was in? What were the surrounding threads? Was the "where's my FIANCE" episode part of this?

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The News Guy(Mike)dianemiller4713

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It was from The Stranded.

Yes and it was the "fianc�" she was looking for.

The woman with the obnoxious voice was talking about "her fianc�" and called him "baby". Then asked, "Where's my baby?" at which time Elaine snapped back with the great Meryl Streep line.

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dianemiller4713The News Guy(Mike)

Thanks! Perfect and timely. I didn't recognize that as a Meryl Streep line.... Out of Africa?

Diane

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Dan Dwiardianemiller4713

The Dingo is a wild dog of Australia. The movie was released in the states as Evil Angels, about a baby (Azaria Chamberlain) who was taken from a tent at Ayers Rock in central Australia. A huge court case ensued, firstly with the mother being charged with murder, then subsequently having the conviction quashed and released from jail. The family maintained that a dingo took her from her bed. The body was never found. wrote in message news:91o5uf$5h3$[email]...

ArtVandelay2000Dan Dwiar

Dan Dwiar wrote: "The Dingo is a wild dog of Australia. The movie was released in the states as Evil Angels, about a baby (Azaria Chamberlain) who was taken from a tent at Ayers Rock in central Australia....."

I believe it was called "A Cry in the Dark" here in the States. (I assume you meant the United States.)

Dan DwiarArtVandelay2000

You are absolutely right, I stand corrected......

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John TwernboldDan Dwiar

One small correction--it was called "A Cry in the Dark" in the US. I believe "Evil Angels" was the Australian title.

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John TwernboldJohn Twernbold

Doh! Looks like another poster already mentioned this in another post. Sorry, my ISP's news server is acting up again and I didn't see those other messages until today.

John Twernbold jtwernbold (at) yahoo.com
R124c4u2John Twernbold

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mediaone as a news server has been 'acting up' for at least 10 days in this particular episodic fit. There is at least an eight to ten hour delay on almost all newsgroup posts. Thank God I kept AOL when I signed up with those maroons at AT&T. road runner aka mediaone aka AT&T is virtually worthless for newsgroups.

boonzDan Dwiar

20/12/00 3:18 [email]

dingos are more closely related to wolves.

Bernie
Daveboonz

http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster?isindex=dingo&method=exact

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boonzDave

6/1/01 5:08 [email]

according to all sources i consulted they all describe the dingo as a dog,in fact the common ancestor of the 600 breeds of dogs we know today.i was wrong.apologies.

Bernie
Dannoboonz

It's just a dog people - The reference is to the Azaria Chamberlain case where a baby was taken by a Dingo in outback Australia and the parents were in court for many years accused of the murder.

Elaine's line was very funny if you live here (Australia)....

Cheers

Danno

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Daveboonz

I've noticed the one adjective that pops up over and over when dingos are referred to online is "wolflike" so it's not like you're *totally* wrong. :-)

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boonzDave

7/1/01 8:40 [email]

thanks.heres something from "the dingo farm" castlemaine victoria australia.

WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS OF THE DINGO?

Bernie
Jigsawz9dianemiller4713

I believe this was the episode "The Stranded" with guest Micheal Chiklis. Jerry and Elaine get dragged to a party on Long Island with George. he leaves them there because a girl he's had his eye on wants to go home with him and Kramer is summoned to pick them up.